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Note: about 1632 to marry. The family returned to the Rensselaer colony in 1638 to America from Vechte, Holland with his first wife (unknown name), one child and two servants on "The Armes of Norway"; they settled in Greenbush, opposite Albany and had a farm in 1648, north of the farm of his brother, Teunis Cornelisen VanVechten; Teunis Dirckse "was spoken of as an old inhabitant in 1663" and "took an active part in the councils and management of the affairs of the colonies" -- source: The Genealogical Records of the VanVechten's; [R065] A Career Woman in 17th Century New York (Hester Jans); [R110] The Genealogical Records of the VanVechtens from 1638 to 1896 >> www.fonda.org <<
Note: b. Vechten, Utrecht Province, HOL; d. Albany, Albany Co., NY; Teunis Dirckse VanVechten immigrated before 1628 from The Netherlands to the Rensselaer Colony along the Hudson River in New Netherlands. He returned to The Netherlands
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